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Electra complex

noun

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Noun
  1. 1
    The theory that a female's psychological development involves a sexual attachment to the father and jealousy of the mother.

    ""No plot! Why, dammit girl, it's all plot, woven about that most fascinating of human problems, the Electra complex!""

  2. 2
    a complex of females; sexual attraction to the father wordnet

Etymology

With reference to Electra of Greek mythology, who killed her mother.

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